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"Pink Houses" is a song written and sung by John Cougar Mellencamp. It was released on the album Uh-Huh on Riva Records. It reached #8 on the US Billboard Hot in early

Mellencamp's previous hits, notably "Hurts So Good" and "Jack & Diane," took him a long time to write."Pink Houses" was different, and marked a creative breakthrough. "I started writing every day and painting and drawing, and I found myself open to suggestion," he said in his Plain Spoken DVD. "I wrote a song called 'Pink Houses' that came very quickly.

But it was "Hurts So Good," the first single from his fifth album, American Fool, that gave him the breakthrough he was looking for. Two albums later, he started using his real last name and writing songs like " Pink Houses " and " Rain On The Scarecrow " that reflected more of his true self.

" Pink Houses " is a song written and performed by John Cougar Mellencamp. It was released on 23 October, album Uh-Huh on Riva Records. It reached No. 8 on the US Billboard Hot in early and No. 15 in Canada. "Pink Houses" was ranked No. on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The Greatest Songs of All Time.

First posted 9/17/ The Best That I Could Do: John Mellencamp Released: November 18, Recorded: + 1.

Mellencamp rose to fame in the s, with his distinct vocal style, and ballad songwriting, and starting in he put out a string of Top 10 singles, including "Hurts So Good," "Jack & Diane," "Crumblin' Down," "Pink Houses," "Lonely Ol' Night," "Small Town," "R.O.C.K. in the .

Pink Houses Lyrics: There's a black man with a black cat / Livin' in a black neighborhood / He's got an Interstate runnin' through his front yard / You know he thinks that he's got it so good / And.